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Journalist Harold Horan is seen participating in Time Magazine staff meeting, chaired by publisher Henry Luce
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Henry Luce (unseen, but heard) conducts a staff meeting in New York. He is heard expressing doubts about the imminence of war in Europe. He speaks of possibly needing to explain to readers why war hasn't commenced. Journalist Harold Horan says a lot could be said about that and it would make a "swell" story..
Teacher gives a lecture and students listen carefully in a class at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Students and teachers at the Tuskegee Institute (1200 W Montgomery Rd, Tuskegee, AL 36088, United States) in Tuskegee, Alabama. A teacher teaches a class pointing towards the map of Europe on display. African American students in class make notes. All the students of class listen attentively to the professor and make notes.
German invasion of Poland triggers British mobilization for World War II
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain sits pensively at his desk. Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, walking together in London. King George VI stepping from a car and entering 10 Downing Street. Mobilization of British forces for war. British civilians marching casually wearing steel army helmets. A man volunteering for the Army. New recruits being issued uniforms. Others, in civilian clothes, learning to drill with rifles and then marching away from a village. Recruits in bayonet practice. Winston Churchill speaking about the tragedy brought upon Europe by Hitler (this Churchill speech was at St. James's Place, London, June 12, 1941, in an address to Allied delegates). Aerial views of the destruction of Poland by Luftwaffe aircraft of Germany. Civilian Polish victims of German bombardment. A boy and women mourning over the dead. A child being held near a bonfire to warm her. Children rescuing a few possessions from a destroyed home. Parents carrying children. Women and girls crying and in mourning for the loss of loved ones and destruction from war.
People read the news on WW2 at Times Square, New York City
People on the streets of Manhattan, New York City. Crowds throng Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. Buildings along the sides of street. 'Nazi planes raid Warsaw' flashing on signage from a building. People view the news on German leader Adolf Hitler and World War II in Europe before America's entry in the war. People buying newspapers.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to the Reichstag in Germany and predicts the annihilation of the Jewish race.
Two months after the ant-semitic Kristallnacht events, speaking to the Reichstag in a meeting at the Kroll Opera House, Hitler predicts the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe if a war occurs. The insignia of the Nazi Party in the background. People cheer and applaud Hitler's anti-Jewish speech.
President Roosevelt asks the Congress to reexamine the Law of Neutrality during an address in Washington DC, United States.
President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the Congress before entering World War II. President Roosevelt during his address urges the Congress to amend the Law of Neutrality to avert the danger of war looming large on America. He says that the primary function of American foreign policy has been to avert war and the government will try to keep out of the war. He states that America has always believed in neutrality and peace but with the outbreak of war in Europe there is a threat to peace and security of United States.